Craft Beer Cans Exploding
Part of the process is called fermentation.
Craft beer cans exploding. There s a bit of an apparently unrecognized danger in canning and buying certain beers exploding cans. What causes exploding beer cans. Not long after its release a reddit thread warning drinkers about cans exploding quickly accumulated 266 comments. Carbon dioxide co2 gas is very soluble in beer but as the temperature increases gas solubility decreases.
Craft beer can explodes causes injury i m in california. It s the latest chapter in an argument that has been raging through the craft beer community for several years now. The brewery at 15 e. For some breweries adding a phone call to their lawyer may be a new necessary step too.
Stacked on shelves refrigerated cellared they were everywhere. Will a rise in temperature alone create enough pressure for a can to burst. Think the process to go from grain to glass with an ingredient laden pastry stout or lacto fruit milkshake ipa is strenuous. One evening i was working alone in the office when a sound like a grenade going off jolted me out of my seat.
Started two years ago with a goal of diversifying the craft beer market and creating accessibility. Can integrity and fill volume. But coincidentally to my exploding can conundrum just this week the site good beer hunting published a story on the subject titled the unfortunate trend of exploding cans in craft beer their. This is in regard to craft beers with fruit i was injured and in my recent research since being injured from an exploding can i noticed there was a huge discussion in regards to room temperature beer exploding because of the refermentation.
In other words when a beer warms it loses carbonation because the gas comes out of the beer. In eras past this. Why cans of fruit beer explode the brewing process is a series of chemical reactions resulting in wonderful flavorful beer. 08 23 18 it s lit the unfortunate trend of exploding cans in craft beer the original craft beer lawyers the craft beer attorney 08 23 18 it s lit the unfortunate trend of exploding cans in craft beer as seen in good beer hunting august 23 2018.
In this step yeast convert sugar into ethanol alcohol. In my former job as editor at a craft beer magazine i worked in an office full of beer bottles and cans. But the brewery will run out of cans soon.